HomeMy WebLinkAbout01 - City Council Redistricting Map (PA2021-035) - CorrespondenceReceived After Agenda Printed
March 8, 2022
Agenda Item No. 1
From: Jim Mosher <iimmosher@yahoo.com>
Sent: March 07, 2022 12:19 PM
To: Campagnolo, Daniel<DCampagnolo@newportbeachca.gov>
Subject: Redistricting Ordinance No. 2022-7
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Dan,
I am working on the comments I submit to the Council regarding their agenda items,
which I need to send by 5:00 p.m.
I just wanted to give you a heads up that in reviewing Item 1, the redistricting
ordinance, I noticed that to achieve the boundary detail shown in Attachment B, you
would have to split both Census Block 1023 and Block 1024.
Without that, the red (District 6) area you show as "Parcel 2" in Attachment B would
remain yellow since that parcel is wholly in Block 1024, which in Exhibit B you assign, in
its entirety, to District 5.
Likewise, the areas protruding below the hatched Block 1023 that you have shaded red
in Attachment C (Bayside Marina lot at 1701 Bayside Dr., Bayside Place, AERIE, etc.)
would not be red, but remain yellow since they, too, fall in Block 1024.
This may seem entirely academic since the Census Bureau finds no housing units in
Block 1024, but it does include boats where people could potentially live -- and more
importantly, if the districts are defined by census blocks, the boundary would simply not
be as shown if Block 1024 is not split.
I will also suggest that the split (of both Census Block 1023 and 1024) occur not along
the southerly boundary line of the Bahia Corinthian property, but at the bayward
extension of the northerly property line of the first residence south of EI Paseo ("Lot 12"
= 1611 Bayside), so as not to put those residents and their docks in different districts
and to avoid the odd tongue of yellow that extends much farther (5 lots) to the right
along the waterfront than shown in Attachment C.
I think that gives a cleaner split, effectively extending the south edge of the EI Paseo
PROW, more closely matching what I imagine I see depicted in Exhibit A of the
ordinance.
Yours,
Jim